Did Jesus Claim to Be God?
Thinking Fellows
1517 Podcasts
4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Did Jesus, in his ministry and preaching, ever claim to be God? Many anti-Christian voices today promote the false idea that Jesus neither claimed divinity nor sought to convince his followers of it. This video offers a clear, accessible overview of how the Gospels present Jesus' divine nature—and how his words and works fulfill that claim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinky Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and this podcast is brought to you by the 1517 podcast network of shows. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast to see all of our shows there. Today I am joined by Scott Keith, Adam Francisco, and Bruce Hillman. And we are discussing a question that we've been seeing online, I guess, in various different places. |
| 0:44.7 | I've been seeing, I saw it on YouTube. |
| 0:47.8 | Bruce, I'm guessing you've seen it other places, Adam on Facebook because he likes his boomer social media. |
| 0:55.1 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:05.0 | True enough, huh? But this has been trending, which is people asserting that Jesus never claimed to be God. This is happening from multiple different angles. I think Adam, you Adam, you in a text message said this is like the classic Islamic sort of apologetic, like Insta apologetic against Christians. |
| 1:22.3 | I've been seeing it also from like the quasi-Aryan groups who you know like like |
| 1:32.5 | like Jehovah witnesses yeah like hold Jesus in some place but then say look he never said |
| 1:38.2 | he was Yahweh specifically is the is the big one or that you know it's all insinuation or made up by Christians and then |
| 1:47.5 | of course there's always the agnostic and atheist uh you know sort of like higher crediticism |
| 1:55.4 | and all the you know the biblical text this is a Christian interpretation of the text but |
| 2:00.8 | Jesus never says i am god |
| 2:02.1 | kind of thing so we're going to talk about this uh question and i think it's part of a bigger |
| 2:09.3 | question for me that comes up um even for christian like why would this be important for christians |
| 2:15.7 | besides sort of fortifying your ears from this particular type of attack on your faith or by giving, you know, like being |
| 2:25.6 | prepared, you know, apologetically for when you're preaching the gospel or somebody to say, |
| 2:30.1 | well, you know, did Jesus even say you was God kind of question? But is just the question, |
| 2:35.7 | who is the Christian God? Like, who do Christians worship? Is our God just, you know, this, |
| 2:43.2 | this guy, dad, who is frowning upon the world for all the naughty things they do? Who is the God |
| 2:50.8 | of Christianity? and so this question |
| 2:52.5 | did jesus christ claim to be god uh works its way into that as well so um i don't know adam you |
| 3:00.1 | you said you have the islamic bent to this but are there any other like why do you think this |
| 3:06.9 | question comes back up today? |
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